The life of an American Family Farm our trails and tribulations and just plain funny moments!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The cows don't care if your sick

I love it how everyone wants to be a farmer! They think it's sooo awesome seeing pretty babies in the field, going for trail rides, etc.... But those are the rewarding times your a farmer, this past winter, putting up hay, vaccinating, pulling calves, mucking stalls those are the times that people don't realize create the rewarding times. Farming is a 24/7 job even on so callled vacations your really not at ease because more than likely somethings gone wrong at the ranch ( as it always does when you leave town, it's like they know they can get in trouble or something). I wish there was a on/off switch, especially these last couple days. If you follow me on facebook you would see where I've been fighting this bug. I don't really know what was wrong, all I know is that I was running a fever around 101.5 constantly but the only other symptom I had was that I was REALLY tired. But that really didn't stop me, which caused me more heart ache because andy was ordering my butt to bed but I had to calve cows, go to the farm and tag calves, we had the bull sale on saturday, yesterday the farrier came and was suppose to put new shoes on everyone, but we only managed to get Pro done because the mares weren't cooperatting that well and I was too sick and agitated to fight with them ( yes I gave up, not really proud of that :( ) we were also out of feed, so had to go to the feed store. Andy was so mad he was like you can do it another day and all I could come up with was hunny farmers don't get sick days. The honest truth is we don't, and I don't think that HSUS, PETA, or any other so called animal welfare group really understands what we farmers go through to support this country. Sometimes I wonder why we do it, when all the thanks we get is someone slammin us down and telling us how so called horrible we are. But then I get a new baby on the ground and I helping it nurse for the first time, or I'm riding my horse at sunset over the ridge, or it's sunday supper at the farm and the whole family is there eating food we grew right there. So no we don't get sick days, we don't get high praise and rewards from the public, but the good lord gives us so many more blessings than most would ever realize and that's the reason I still do it.